after a dist-upgrade today the system hangs in early boot at "populating dev" for several minutes, after which booting proceeds with the message "udevd: timeout: killing '/sbin/modprobe -bv ...'". Notably, alsa-utils reports an error (no sound card detected) during boot. Hoever, if loading the snd-hda-intel module manually after boot and restarting alsa-utils, sound works again. I have tried booting an earlier kernel as well downgrading oss-compat and initramfs-tools to testing with no luck. Here's a list of what was updated today:

I DU 30 mins ago and I have the same problem in 32 bit.
Additionally, I have no sound anymore.

EDIT
A relevant error is

Quote:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

DeepDayze

Post subject:Posted: 25.06.2013, 15:37

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Same issues here and kicking oss-compat works here too. I don't see why oss-compat should even be a dependency for modern packages that utilize audio, but at least a recommends as most people don't have such old audio cards anymore that even alsa doesn't support. Alsa has come a long way since and it has much better audio hardware support these days

kenyee

Post subject:Posted: 25.06.2013, 23:23

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Do you guys get a bunch of stuff removed when you kick oss-compat? I get this: